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Rite Aid workers fight for first contract

January 13, 2010

When it comes to union busting, the retail drug giant Rite Aid is the "poster child" for why we need the Employee Free Choice Act, says Peter Olney, organizing director for the International Longshore and Warehouse...

Challenging anti-government ideas

January 13, 2010 By Bruce Bostick And Wally Kaufman

We need to show that the American people through their struggles have established the basic institutions of democratic society including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Postal Service, the VA, public schools and libraries, and much more....

Oscar Grant murder trial moves to Los Angeles

January 13, 2010 By Luis Rivas

LOS ANGELES, Calif.— Dozens of protesters rallied in front of the county courthouse here Jan. 8 to bring attention to the recent move of the trial against an Oakland Bay Area Rapid Transit officer charged with...

Tens of thousands call Washington to demand no tax on workers’ benefits

January 13, 2010 By John Wojcik

As phones ring off the hook in the nation's capital with calls from workers angry about a Senate health reform bill that would tax their benefits there are signals coming from both the White House and...

Confronting corporate ideology in the fight for jobs

January 13, 2010 By Bruce Bostick And Wally Kaufman

The struggle for jobs must challenge ideas of "market supremacy" - downgrading everything public - and "supply side" trickle-down economics. (Part 2 of 3-part series)